Holy crap, meara! Don't do that!

Ewww...ants. I really really hate them. One advantage to living on the 5th floor, no ants.

This has already been an ick morning. It can stop now, thankyouverymuch.

Need this t-shirt. Now.

OK, so I decided last night I shouldn't read my email after 4:30 pm the day before a 9 am meeting. I should also not read my email before that 9 am meeting, because then I'll get engrossed in another issue and be a couple minutes late to the meeting. Damnit.

I knew I should have started my laundry when I first woke up at 5:30. I fell back to sleep and then got stuck in the bathroom before I could get down to the laundry room at 8:15. Sigh. Now I won't get to work until almost 10:30 (have to stop at the library to do some stuff for class before going to work). Luckily, I stayed late at work last night to make up time for leaving early this afternoon.

Hey, he's 29.

Oh, that's a grownup, for sure.

Ack! Yes, meara, I'm so glad nothing bad happened.

I think Hec posted something about Battleship Island a while back - here's a bunch of pictures:

Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites

In the case of Hashima Island, or Battleship Island (Gunkanjima in Japanese) as it's often called, hope and optimism became dust and decay because one black resource (coal) was replaced by a cheaper black resource (oil). Populated first in 1887, the island – which is 15 kilometers from Nagasaki – only began to really, and phenomenally, become populated much later, in 1959.

Hashima is, for many ruin fans, the rotting and collapsing grail, the benchmark all other crumbling structures are measured against – and seeing pictures of the place it's easy to see why. Not only is Hashima frighteningly preserved in some places, as if the residents had just stepped out as few minutes before, but it is also, contrarily, spectacularly falling down. Beyond its current awe-inspiring state of decay, the island's dramatic isolation and its bizarre history make it the ruin of ruins.

I am VERY LUCKY MY HOUSE DID NOT BURN DOWN OMG. I got home from a two day trip and discovered that I had left a burner ON on my gas stove. For TWO DAYS.

OMG. I did that once with my gas grill - which I had intended to turn off in the first place because it was making a scary noise - and then like two days later I was watering my plants and was all "why is it so freaking hot right here?" Scary.

A puzzler - what thread does "music for dogs" go? I'ma gonna' guess it goes here.

LOU REED AND LAURIE ANDERSON PLAN HIGH FREQUENCY CONCERT FOR DOGS

The ad for the show reads:

"Laurie Anderson has composed a 20 minute work especially for the hearing range of dogs – who can hear frequencies far outside the human audio spectrum. Taking the idea of the apparently inaudible dog whistle to new artistic heights, our canine friends will be treated to a glorious cacophony of sound, while all we will hear is the lapping of the water on the harbor.

The morning will be an inter-species social gathering on a scale never seen before in Australia. Breakfast can be purchased on site including freshly brewed coffee and egg & bacon rolls, while you watch dog demonstrations and be surprised by some very special guests.

This is an event that you’ll be yapping about for years to come, an absolute must for any dog and their two legged friends!"

Both Anderson and Reed have indicated that they enjoy making such music for their own rat terrier named Lollabelle.

Anderson told the Sydney Morning Herald, "She likes things with a lot of smoothness but with beats in them."

The prolific composer continued that she was inspired to create such a show after she attended a performance at the Vivid Live festival in Sydney.

"Wouldn't it be great, if you were playing a concert and you look out and you see all dogs?"

BBC News indicated that Reed is helping to stage the 20-minute show.

I haz a very important visitor coming on Sunday! [link]

I'm so excited I'm practically vibrating. Also, I apparently have a type.